Bar Code 128

Aka: UCC-128, EAN-128, SSCC-18 and SCC-14

Overview

The Bar Code 128 font is a very high-density alpha-numeric symbology. This font has 106 different printed barcode patterns. Each printed bar code can have one of three different meanings depending on which of the three character sets are used. Three different Bar Code 128 start characters are available to tell the scanner which character set is being used.

Although this font is a higher density barcode, it requires a checksum to be calculated and can be difficult to use if you are not an advanced PC user. If you are not required to use bar code 128 barcodes and you need an easy to use alpha-numeric barcode, consider our Bar Code 39 barcode font which does not require checksums to be calculated.

This font can also be used for UCC-128 and EAN-128 barcode applications such as the UCC/EAN-128 symbols and data structure for SSCC-18 and SCC-14. When using Bar Code 128 fonts for this purpose, every barcode must begin with a Start C character followed by a (fnc1) "function code one" character. Our function "UCC128()" in our Office Macros and VB source code can be used for this. UCC-128 and EAN-128 are primarily used for distribution applications and serialized carton tracking.

Our barcode font was developed according to ANSI and European (CEN) standards. The complete printed barcode consists of a leading quiet zone, a start pattern that selects the character set, this barcode symbols representing data, the check character to ensure data integrity, a stop pattern and a trailing quiet zone. According to ANSI specifications, the quiet zones must be 10 times the width of the short bar in the barcode.

Features

This barcode is scaleable and should be printed at the correct font size to suit your application and scanning equipment. Six (6) versions of this font are provided to support different width and height requirements.

Human Readable versions of the this font are also provided for character sets B and C with your order. Each of these is also supplied in the 6 different heights for a total of 18 different Code 128 fonts. The human readable fonts all start with C128 and include the letter "H" after a lower case letter specifying the character set. For example, the font "C128bHe.ttf" is a human readable for character set B with a font height of E. The human readable format is not as popular as the standard version because the check digit will also appear. Usually, programmers will just print the data that is encoded directly below the barcode printed.

ERROR MSGWhen printed at 20 points, this font will produce the exact dimensions required by the USPS special services which is a height of .75" and an x dimension of .013".

When printing this font, the font size of 12 or greater should be used. If you have a requirement to print smaller than 12 points, you should use a high quality laser printer with 600 DPI resolution or greater and a barcode scanner that can read barcodes printed smaller than 8 mils. Printed with an HP Laserjet at 600 DPI

Several formats are provided with your order for support of Windows, DOS and UNIX. The TrueType version of this font is compatible with all versions of Microsoft Windows including Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT and Windows 2000. Macintosh fonts are not provided because of a problem with the extended characters.